Public ambulance services and hospitals are owed $75 million from the now-bankrupt Wellpath. Some want the state to reimburse them.

A bill in the Kentucky legislature would require the state's prisons to designate bathrooms, sleeping quarters and other areas by biological sex.

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

Sen. Bryan King and a group of Northwest Arkansas residents who oppose the state’s plan to build a 3,000-bed prison in ...

James Ford is set to die by lethal injection and would be the first execution of the year at Florida State Prison.

With the closure of SCI Rockview in Bellefonte on the chopping block under Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal, local officials expect that a fairly smooth transition will be put in place for the jail ...

An incident at the Collins Correctional Facility led to a lockdown Wednesday for the facility’s staff and incarcerated individuals. Wednesday afternoon, the Department of Corrections and Community ...

The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is investigating an incident at the Collins ...

Texas is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club, and ...

Pregnant inmate Caitlyn Macrery is reporting inadequate nutrition and prenatal care at Perryville State Prison as ACLU moves ...

The Ashtabula County Board of Commissioners hosted a pair of public meetings on proposed plans for an expanded Ashtabula County Jail Wednesday.